false 2900643 4 <p>Television reporter Riley Spartz is recovering from a heart-breaking, headline-making catastrophe of her own when a longtime police source drops two homicide files in her lap in the back of a dark movie theater. Both cold cases involve women named Susan strangled on the same day, one year apart. Last seen alive in one of Minneapolis's poorest neighborhoods, their bodies are each dumped in one of the city's wealthiest areas. Riley senses a pattern between those murders and others pulled from a computer database of old death records. She must broadcast a warning soon, especially to viewers named Susan, because the deadly anniversary is approaching. <br> <br>But not just lives are at stake&#8212; so are careers. <br> <br>November is television sweeps month, and every rating point counts at Channel 3. Riley must go up against a news director who cares more about dead dogs than dead women, a politician who fears negative stories about serial killers will hurt the city's convention business, and the very real possibility that her source knows more about the murders than he is letting on. <br> <br>When Riley suspects the killer has moved personal items from one victim to the next as part of an elaborate ritual, she stages a bold on-air stunt to draw him out and uncovers a motive that will leave readers breathless.</p> 2927770 book 15 7 2008 Stalking Susan: A Novel total:215|5:26|4:91|3:75|2:19|1:4| 215 761 364 83 3 1 false false Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 01:21:35 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 21:25:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 06:59:07 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 07:00:40 -0700 2009
Riley Spartz is a television reporter for the Twin Cities Channel 3. She has been on leave recovering from an on-air catastrophe that killed her husband. Now, sh...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Aug 27 14:00:14 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 14:00:30 -0700 2009
I was bored after the first couple of pages. Nothing grabbed my attention. But I decided to drudge through and it give it a chance. It was a quick rea...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 06:40:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 09:02:09 -0700 2009
Riley is an investigative journalist for channel 3 in Minnesota. Rile...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 05:22:59 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 10:13:27 -0800 2008
A winner! Interesting characters. Tricky plot. Not too much blood.
It's told in the first person--newspaper investigative reporter, Riley. A cop friend gives her a tip about cold case mur...more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Nov 23 22:48:06 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 22:48:40 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 08 08:14:25 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 08:17:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 13:08:08 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 05 14:32:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 22:39:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 11:29:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 06:14:26 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 17:21:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 11:48:34 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 15:25:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 20:07:51 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 20:10:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 17:03:39 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 17:36:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 20:42:19 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 15:04:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 12 19:33:12 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 19:39:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 16:05:16 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 16:08:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 09:17:35 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 09:20:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 13 10:11:56 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 10:32:01 -0700 2008
I enjoyed the two thirds of the Julie Kramer's debut. I found her protagonist, Riley Spartz to be well fleshed out and believable as an amateur sleuth. Her insider knowl...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:26:50 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 16:39:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 12 14:39:39 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 14:51:50 -0700 2008 more...]]>